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CORTANA WILL BE ONE OF THE major features (go.pcworld.com/ new10) to come to Windows 10, and at least one PC vendor plans to treat her especially well. Toshiba's Windows 10 [...]

The Cell Broadband Engine[TM] (Cell/B.E.) processor is the first implementation of the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA), developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. In addition to use of the Cell/B.E. processor in the Sony Computer Entertainment PLA YSTA TION[R]3 system, there is much interest in using it for workstations, media-rich electronics devices, and video and image processing systems. The Cell/B.E. processor includes one PowerPC[R] processor element (PPE) and eight synergistic processor elements (SPEs). The CBEA is designed to be well suited for a wide variety of programming models, and it allows for partitioning of work between the PPE and the eight SPEs. In this paper we show that the Cell/B.E. processor can outperform other modern processors by approximately an order of magnitude and by even more in some cases.

The arrival of fuel cells as new power sources for portable electronics is a fait accompli that's yet to be accomplished. Yes, fuel cell engineering is as advanced as it […]

It is not often that technology gets a mention in the State of the Union address by a US president. The last time was probably the start of the Apollo [...]

This report addresses the question of how product innovation occurs. In other words, where does it originate and what induces it? The aim of the authors has been to expand upon and systematize the research presented in our previous study (Orihata, M., Watanabe, C., Technovation, in press) through the application of a new, evolutionary approach. We have chosen to focus on the consumer electronics industry, taking as our case studies three producers of revolutionary products such as Sony's video camera, Sharp's PDA (Personal Digital Assistance) and Toshiba's notebook personal computer. These examples have the virtue of encompassing both visual and text-based data transmission devices, as well as hand-script input and keyboard input methods. The main point we shall consider here is the stage that takes place before product innovation occurs, the process that we have termed 'institutional inducement', which forms part of the feedback loop between the market, or environment, and the producer. Because this process is 'a flow of information and knowledge' we have structured it using a semiotic methodology, which has led us to conclude that product innovation is induced by the creation of new product concepts. In accordance with this, we propose that the evolutionary, dynamic pattern of product innovation is linked to the institutional trajectory.

[Editor's Note: Covering any technology issue can be nerve-racking for a monthly magazine like CD-ROM Professional, with significant advances always possible, at any hour. This holds especially true when reporting […]

Toshiba Corporation and IRID developed a submersible robot, just 13cm in diameter, to enter and inspect the damaged PCV at Fukushima Daiichi unit 3. Images released on 20 July showed [...]

New battery chemistries such as lithium-polymer are addressing the technical needs of the cellular phone and notebook-computer markets. Lithium-ion technology is sparking excitement in the rechargeable-battery business, thanks to the […]

Sony Corp. has lost the first round in a battle over digital videodiscs (DVDs) with Toshiba Corp. DVDs are a storage medium of high capacity which can be used for computer applications, music, games software and films. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. decided to support Toshiba's double-sided Super Density disc, and not Sony's single-sided disc, as it has greater capacity.

More Mingling With IBM and Siemens EAST FISHKILL, N.Y.--Toshiba has joined the IBM-Siemens team to share the rising expense of developing a new 64-Megabit DRAM to meet the growing memory […]

USEC Inc. closed on the first phase of a strategic investment in the company by nuclear power industry leaders The Babcock & Wilcox Company and Toshiba Corp. According to a [...]

Toshiba, which lost the high-definition format war to Sony-backed Blu-ray, is planning to release a Blu-ray player this year, a necessary move in order to stay competitive in the HD […]

Toshiba this week said it plans before April to ship a 128 GB solid-state drive that will appear first in Toshiba notebooks sold in Japan. The drive, which has no […]

Toshiba, which recently suffered a major setback in its fight to dominate the high-definition movie format for DVDs, on Monday dropped the prices of its HD DVD players and said […]

IBM and its partners, which include tech heavyweights Advanced Micro Devices, Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, and others, said Monday they have developed a key material that reduces the cost of manufacturing […]

Details about the tapeless HD ENG system that Ikegami and Toshiba are collaboratively developing emerged this week. The tapeless system, announced at NAB2007, will use a storage platform based on [...]

In an early example of firms solving the nagging problem of WiMAX interoperability, Nortel and Toshiba Corp. reported Friday that they will offer mobile WiMAX base stations for Japanese and […]

Ikegami Tsushinki and Toshiba said at NAB2007 that they would jointly develop and promote an advanced video production/editing system. The collaboration combines each company's expertise to deliver a system that [...]

Byline: Clive Akass Blu-ray camp bullish as HD-DVD hits 51GB Toshiba has developed a triple-layer HD-DVD system that can store 51GB per disk -- putting it on a par with [...]

TOKYO (Reuters)--Toshiba Corp. said it planned the launch of the first next-generation, high-definition optical disc recorder based on the HD DVD format on July 14 in Japan as it intensifies […]

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS rely on low-cost RF-identification (RFID) tags for reliable operation. Researcher Toshiyuki Umeda and associates from the Mobile Communications Laboratory of the Corporate Research and Development Center of [...]

Worldwide Computer Products News-27 September 2005-Toshiba develops notebook PC with HD DVD-ROM drive(C)1995-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Toshiba Corporation (PNK: TOSBF.PK) on Monday (26 September) announced the combining of high-definition […]

TOKYO (Reuters)--Japan's Toshiba Corp. said on Tuesday it had developed the world's first PC able to read HD DVD discs, a next-generation disc format it is promoting over a rival […]

Toshiba Corp.'s plan to introduce HD DVD players ahead of Blu-ray Disc players in the United States may face delays, a Japanese newspaper reports. Mainichi Shimbun said the U.S. launch […]

TOKYO (AP) -- Toshiba Corp.'s president said Wednesday his company has no plans to revive failed talks with a Sony Corp.-led consortium to find a unified format for next-generation DVDs, […]